Why is this filming in Canada??

it is, of course, Defiance, Ohio. :o) Are you from Canada ????, as I am living in Alberta presently.

Ultimately the decisions are made by the people who hold the purse strings, namely the producers. Their job is to ensure that a movie is produced for the best price possible, and will maximise profits. Despite Arnie's protestations, I would suspect that the producers call the shots in many cases.

There are also other reasons for shooting in Canada. There are tax credits, there is the favourable exchange rate even if the Canadian dollar is a little stronger now than it was a couple of years ago, and we also have very good crews and actors here.

There are many small communities here that pass for 'rural America' and, for the most part, we are very supportive of the movie industry, the jobs that U.S. productions provide and everything that goes to create "Hollywood North" here in Canada.

Coincidentally, I have just come off the set of this movie where I and six fellow ACTRA members were involved in a shoot. The director, Jane Anderson is a joy to work with and I hope she likes Canada and the people enough to want to shoot up here again.

One final note to the comment that was posted about why something so American should be made in Canada. A seminal moment in recent history was, of course, the tragic events of 9/11. A film was made for TV called "D.C. 9/11: Time of Crisis". What could have been more American in terms of the images sent around the world, but this movie, which deals with the few days following 9/11 and George W.Bush's first visit to Ground Zero was filmed in ..... you guessed it, Canada! So, next time you search for the movie on the internet and you see Timothy Bottoms (who played George W.Bush) standing next to a firefighter on a wrecked truck as he bellows to the crowd through a megaphone, you will know who wrote this letter.

It's not like The American Film industry is poor and suffuring.

I personally love that American movies are filmed so often in Toronto and other areas of Canada, because I am an actor in Toronto and those films make up 90% of my job opportunities.

Without these movies filmed in Canada, there would have been no launching ground for the careers of such starts as Elisha Cuthbert, and Mike Myers.

Thanks to those movies we have one of the best film industries (outside of Hollywood) in the world.

It make really makes you proud to be Canadian eh?
(haha jokes)

The dollar happens to be a way to meet budget and still get great technical support. Currency can change back and we may be filming in the USA one day.
The impotant thing is that the movie gets made so everyone is entertained and hopefully educated

C'mon...the U.S. film industry has been hogging all the business since the beginning of film. Give us a break...(I love how I can go to a hospital and not get a bill when I leave...)

I was also born in Defiance. We moved to Chicago when I was 10. I went to Spencer Elementary and lived in the apartment that is attached to Ned Speiser Insurance right next to the college. My grandparents still live in Sherwood. So, there's my life story! LOL!